Luke Norris
@lukenorris.bsky.social
Professor, University of Richmond Law School. Mostly writing about civil procedure and workers’ rights, with a political economy focus. https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/lnorris/
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Registration closed yesterday (over 400 attendees!), but I heard a rumor that there's a brief grace period. So register if you didn't!
🚨Today is the final day to register for the Association of Law and Political Economy's inaugural conference🚨
And even if you are unable to attend the conference, you can still join @a-lpe.bsky.social as a member and vote in the spring elections!
Links to both can be found in the post below!
And even if you are unable to attend the conference, you can still join @a-lpe.bsky.social as a member and vote in the spring elections!
Links to both can be found in the post below!
Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Registration closed yesterday (over 400 attendees!), but I heard a rumor that there's a brief grace period. So register if you didn't!
This has been a labor of love! Read on to learn about the new, democratic, membership-based structure. Join as a member — and come to our first annual conference in Richmond in Feb! 😊
LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times
As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…
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December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This has been a labor of love! Read on to learn about the new, democratic, membership-based structure. Join as a member — and come to our first annual conference in Richmond in Feb! 😊
So excited for all of this content and hope to see many folks in Richmond for the inaugural ALPE conference! You can still register through December 10th.
Goodness gracious the @a-lpe.bsky.social conference schedule is stacked. Just in the first hour there's a session on how to reconstruct higher ed, critical analysis of corporate law, theorizing informational power, structural reform of the tax system, and I'm out of characters b4 I can even list
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So excited for all of this content and hope to see many folks in Richmond for the inaugural ALPE conference! You can still register through December 10th.
So delighted that my incredibly talented colleague Danielle Wingfield has won the AALS Family Law section’s emerging scholar award for her excellent work!
Congratulations are in order to Prof. @dcwing.bsky.social. Her article, Convergence Against Homeplace, was selected by the AALS Family and Juvenile Section Awards Committee to receive the section’s Emerging Scholar Award! https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5441354
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
So delighted that my incredibly talented colleague Danielle Wingfield has won the AALS Family Law section’s emerging scholar award for her excellent work!
Yes, folks, please submit for what promises to be an awesome gathering in Richmond — the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference!
Today - 15th - is the day to submit ALPE conference proposals!!
Been great to hear the buzz of conversations as people are planning their papers and panels for the ALPE conference - submissions are now open!! Spread the word.
September 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yes, folks, please submit for what promises to be an awesome gathering in Richmond — the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference!
If you happen to be at one of these law schools in the South, be sure to check out one of my fabulous colleague @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social’s book events!
Now that August is officially ended it’s tour time! I’m traveling around with my book Secrets of the Killing State. Join me in conversation with law professors, advocates, and community leaders as we uncover the history behind America’s most common execution method. Looking forward to see you there!
September 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you happen to be at one of these law schools in the South, be sure to check out one of my fabulous colleague @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social’s book events!
Excited to be headed to CA for the California Law Review’s “Iqbal at 15” symposium. Thanks to @gelbach.bsky.social and @andrewbradt.bsky.social for organizing!
August 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Excited to be headed to CA for the California Law Review’s “Iqbal at 15” symposium. Thanks to @gelbach.bsky.social and @andrewbradt.bsky.social for organizing!
Grateful to now be the Tyler Hanes Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty Development at @richmondlaw.bsky.social. Really looking forward to sharing and celebrating my colleagues’ excellent work!
August 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Grateful to now be the Tyler Hanes Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty Development at @richmondlaw.bsky.social. Really looking forward to sharing and celebrating my colleagues’ excellent work!
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Couldn't be more excited about this CFP - and the new organization it will help launch. Check it out, and get together w/ your pals to think up the panels, roundtables, and papers you might want to present!
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CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
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CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
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Association of Law & Political Economy
Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Couldn't be more excited about this CFP - and the new organization it will help launch. Check it out, and get together w/ your pals to think up the panels, roundtables, and papers you might want to present!
Very excited to be hosting the inaugural Association for Law & Political Economy conference here in Richmond and for this membership-based association to get off the ground! Check out the CfP below!
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
Association of Law & Political Economy
Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Very excited to be hosting the inaugural Association for Law & Political Economy conference here in Richmond and for this membership-based association to get off the ground! Check out the CfP below!
My latest, Procedural Political Economy, is up. It’s an effort to marry the civil procedure and LPE literatures. Check it out!
Procedural Political Economy
When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure came into being in 1938, a broad political economy discourse was driving significant legal and policy reform efforts.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My latest, Procedural Political Economy, is up. It’s an effort to marry the civil procedure and LPE literatures. Check it out!
🚨🔥🚨 So excited to be working on launching the new LPE Association! Please save the new date for the conference here in Richmond & follow us at @a-lpe.bsky.social!
LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!
June 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨🔥🚨 So excited to be working on launching the new LPE Association! Please save the new date for the conference here in Richmond & follow us at @a-lpe.bsky.social!
It was such a pleasure to host the 10th(!) annual Civil Procedure Workshop here at Richmond! Such great papers and discussions & so delightful to have a great cohort of fellows and junior scholars in the midst sharing their work!
Richmond Law was proud to host the 10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop this week! Civil procedure scholars gathered for two days of rich discussion and connection. Huge thanks to Dean Wendy Perdue, @profk.bsky.social, @lukenorris.bsky.social, and all who joined!
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June 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It was such a pleasure to host the 10th(!) annual Civil Procedure Workshop here at Richmond! Such great papers and discussions & so delightful to have a great cohort of fellows and junior scholars in the midst sharing their work!
Having had the pleasure of reading many iterations of this book, I can attest that it’s fabulous! @athenais.bsky.social illuminates many ways the law treats those at the high- and low-end of the wealth spectrum differently and, in doing so, teaches us new things abt the architecture of inequality.
It feels weird, but I'm excited to say I just submitted all the chapters of my forthcoming book for first edits 🤩. It's about family money, wealth management, and poverty governance (surprise!). It's about systems of extraction and generational wealth. It's about laws, geographies, and narratives.
April 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Having had the pleasure of reading many iterations of this book, I can attest that it’s fabulous! @athenais.bsky.social illuminates many ways the law treats those at the high- and low-end of the wealth spectrum differently and, in doing so, teaches us new things abt the architecture of inequality.
As always, insightful and interesting work by the one and only @marissaesque.bsky.social!
Building on the astute analyses by @karenattiah.bsky.social and @adamserwer.bsky.social in my debut post for the @lpeblog.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s assault on Black federal workers today, which calls upon us to consider that peonage may be the point:
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Racial Capitalism and the Assault on Federal Workers
By purging African Americans from the federal workforce, the Trump administration does not merely aim to undermine racial integration; rather, it seeks to bring about the economic immiseration of…
lpeproject.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
As always, insightful and interesting work by the one and only @marissaesque.bsky.social!
🚨🚨 Registration is now open for the 10th Civil Procedure Workshop at Richmond on June 2-3. Sign up at the link below!
10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
April 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨🚨 Registration is now open for the 10th Civil Procedure Workshop at Richmond on June 2-3. Sign up at the link below!
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Every year, when I teach civil rights litigation, my students are confronted with & confront me questions about what civil rights suits can actually accomplish. This essay is my answer. It's a very early draft & I'd welcome your suggestions, additions & stories.
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March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Every year, when I teach civil rights litigation, my students are confronted with & confront me questions about what civil rights suits can actually accomplish. This essay is my answer. It's a very early draft & I'd welcome your suggestions, additions & stories.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨🚨 Check out my fantastic colleague @athenais.bsky.social with a nuanced post on what universities can (and can’t) do with their endowments in this moment!
We are going to need to re-think university funding so very soon and understanding what endowments can and can't do is a helpful place to start. Happily, here is some on-point morning reading, brought to you by me and @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/how-to-...
How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions
If endowments are fundamentally creatures of restriction, they are also in smaller measure creatures of interpretation and discretion. Universities should use what flexibility they do have to stand up...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨🚨 Check out my fantastic colleague @athenais.bsky.social with a nuanced post on what universities can (and can’t) do with their endowments in this moment!
Yes, come join — such a great event and great way to make new connections and friends in the academy! 👇👇
Friends! It is that time of the year. Time to register for the Richmond Junior Faculty Forum! Come and join the Richmond crew and what will most certainly be a fantastic group of junior faculty. Register today and get in touch if you have questions! 🎉🤩💥
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March 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yes, come join — such a great event and great way to make new connections and friends in the academy! 👇👇
A reminder to submit your abstracts for the 10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop by March 3rd! 🚨 🚨
It will be hosted at Richmond Law on June 2-3. You can submit at the link below. 👇
It will be hosted at Richmond Law on June 2-3. You can submit at the link below. 👇
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February 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A reminder to submit your abstracts for the 10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop by March 3rd! 🚨 🚨
It will be hosted at Richmond Law on June 2-3. You can submit at the link below. 👇
It will be hosted at Richmond Law on June 2-3. You can submit at the link below. 👇
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Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!!
Save the date Sept 11-13!!
law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...
Save the date Sept 11-13!!
law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...
Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!!
Save the date Sept 11-13!!
law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...
Save the date Sept 11-13!!
law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...
Reposted by Luke Norris
Couldn't be more excited about the next big LPE conference and the big tent 🎪 LPE Association!!!
Look at that Planning Committee 👀
Look at that Planning Committee 👀
LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Couldn't be more excited about the next big LPE conference and the big tent 🎪 LPE Association!!!
Look at that Planning Committee 👀
Look at that Planning Committee 👀
Reposted by Luke Norris
LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
Save the date for the inaugural Law and Political Economy Association conference on September 11-13, 2025 at the University of Richmond School of Law!
Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Save the date for the inaugural Law and Political Economy Association conference on September 11-13, 2025 at the University of Richmond School of Law!
If you’re working on civil procedure projects, boy do we have a workshop for you! The tenth (!) annual Civil Procedure Workshop will be held at Richmond on June 2-3rd.
Check out the link below and submit your abstract by March 3rd.
Check out the link below and submit your abstract by March 3rd.
10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you’re working on civil procedure projects, boy do we have a workshop for you! The tenth (!) annual Civil Procedure Workshop will be held at Richmond on June 2-3rd.
Check out the link below and submit your abstract by March 3rd.
Check out the link below and submit your abstract by March 3rd.